Gen. John P. Jumper, who commanded United States Air Force units in Europe during the Kosovo campaign, recalled that allied "air power was getting its paper graded on the number of tanks killed" — even though taking out armored vehicles one by one was never going to halt "ethnic cleansing".
"Answer keys" are handed out after essays, teachers demand, "Why would you think that?" when alternate interpretations are offered, and papers are graded on the number of rhetorical devices employed.
Papers were graded on a range of items as follows: A = no significant flaws, B = minor flaws not affecting credibility or validity, C = some flaws likely to affect credibility or validity, and D = significant flaws affecting credibility or validity.
Instead, as Juha Niemela, boss of UPM-Kymmene, points out, they have streamlined the business, concentrating on particular grades of paper, such as fine papers for office use, and sought to consolidate paper making in products with the biggest technical demands and the highest economic returns.
Chris, however, countered: "I think that the parents of some of these students of more privileged families see grades on papers, but that's it.
Grading on a 100-point scale was found to be highly unreliable, with different teachers unable to assign consistent grades on papers in English, math, and history (Starch, 1913).
BL5 Teacher assigns a grade of 4.0 (highest possible score) on paper and writes check marks on every item indicating a positive comment, but no detail is provided.
I still have not read 100percentt of Hamlet, even though I taught it and graded papers on it but I did manage to keep up with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Two authors (EJ and LP) independently assessed the quality of the studies reporting HIV prevalence estimates using a scoring system that graded the papers on: wide geographic coverage; most recent study; population sampled; and recruitment setting.
Starch and Elliott (1912) asked 142 teachers to grade the same English paper and found that grades on the paper varied from 50 to 98% between teachers.
Even if those factors were evened out, a grade earned on papers taken in the hay-fever season gives only a snapshot of performance on a particular day.
